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This was made during walking with a kid on a cold February day. Rooks were walking in the pile of leaves searching for something. This one suddenly found a nut. The happiness and excitement is seen upon his beak. It tried to leave all the others without a fight but it couldn't. All the nearby rooks were trying to get the nut with fight in result. However the treasure seeker escaped and were eating it happily on a nearby tree. 

Rooks are getting ready for winter to. They hide all the nuts they can find and can not eat. This hideout is a happy hour for all the squirrels and other nut eaters. So the rooks need to hide the nuts carefully.  The rook is a member of the Corvidae family in the passerine order of birds. Named by Carl Linnaeus in 1758, the species name frugilegus is Latin for "food-gathering". Wikipedia  Full Flickr version: Canon 6D, Canon EF 100-400L ƒ4.5-5.6 IS USM, at 400mm, ISO1600, 1/400, ƒ/6.3